SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers?

pointbeing writes "Just read this article about a company called Blue Security that essentially floods a spammer's website with requests to unsubscribe members - we're talking thousands of requests per day - the company's CEO says that fighting back by "inducing loss" against spammers is the only way to eventually stop them. Although I hate spam as much as the next guy, is participating in a DDOS attack the way to bring spammers to their knees? If it's okay in this instance, it it okay to DDOS the next guy who does something we don't like? "

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upgrade!

[ChristTrekker]

They need to upgrade from a DOS attack to a Windows attack! If all the spammers' machines were infected with Windows, surely some would subsequently crash and less spam would be sent out. That would be more effective than a DOS attack.